Consultations

FaithAction believes that faith-based and community organisations provide services that are key to their local communities and tailored for them based on their close knowledge of their local community’s needs. This page lists a number of consultations from various departments where faith groups can raise their voices and have an influence on a national agenda.

If you want to speak to a member of the FaithAction team about any of these consultations before completing them, please get in touch with the national office on 0845 094 6350 or e-mail info@faithaction.net

Active Consultations

NHS England consultation on evidence-based interventions

NHS England has launched a new consultation on evidence-based interventions, a programme that aims to ensure that the least effective treatments and surgeries are no longer prescribed routinely. The consultation seeks public feedback on the principles of the programme and the interventions that will be targeted initially. The deadline for responses is Friday 28 September 2018.

Relationship, Health and Sex Education Consulation

The Department for Education is proposing that schools are required to teach relationships education at primary school, relationships and sex education at secondary school and health education at all state-funded schools.

The draft regulations build on the findings from the call for evidence and DfE’s engagement with other interested parties.

The responses to the consultation will help inform any further refining of the draft regulations before they are put before Parliament and the guidance finally published.

Have your say on mental health in the Long Term Plan for the NHS

The Government has asked the NHS to publish a Long Term Plan for how it will improve, with the new funding that it has been promised. It is currently collecting views and engaging with stakeholders to help it develop the plan – and that includes with the voluntary sector.

At FaithAction we know that mental health is often the most pressing issue our members see in the communities they work with. If this is the case for you, please consider whether you can give some input to the plan.

This letter sets out the questions that NHS England would like your views on. FaithAction will submit a response on behalf of our members, so if you would like to take part, please send brief answers to the questions you wish to answer (our overall response is limited to 1500 words).

NHS England consultation on Integrated Care Provider contracts

There is widespread support for ending the fragmented way that care has been provided to improve services for patients and the NHS has been working towards this in a number of ways.

Integrated Care Providers (ICPs) are one of these ways, and are intended to allow health and care organisations to be funded to provide services for a local population in a coordinated way.

An ICP is not a new type of legal entity and so would not affect the commissioning structure of the NHS. An ICP would simply be the provider organisation which is awarded a contract by commissioners for the services which are within scope. It represents an additional option for the local NHS but is not expected to be used everywhere.

NHS England has now launched a consultation on the contracting arrangements for ICPs. The deadline for responses is 26 October 2018.

Consultation events for the public

NHS England is holding regional engagement events in London, Leeds, Exeter and Birmingham to provide further opportunities for the public to share their views.

The events will provide an overview of the key points of the consultation. You will have an opportunity to share your feedback in facilitated table discussions, which will be summarised at the end of the event for the whole group. Points raised during the events will be taken into account as part of the analysis of consultation responses.

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